Damadian was the first to perform a full body scan of a human being in 1977 to diagnose cancer after inventing an apparatus and method to use Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy safely and accurately to scan the human body, a method now generically known as magnetic resonance imaging ( or the MRI).
By 1980 the 'MRI' was not being commonly used as a forensic tool and no 'MRI' scans were made of the Ingram find or we might be able to reconstruct and examine in some detail what was presented at the Portland Office of the FBI by the Ingrams on Feb 13th, 1980.
Instead, these stacks of money were disassembled into a series of semi pressed, flattened, and semi-cleaned bills laid carefully into FBI evidence folders, to be saved for finger printing by the old silver nitrate method which predictably proved fruitless and destructive to the very evidence needing to be preserved. Then at length, after legal action, the Court divided these bills and parts of bills among the various contentious parties all staking some claim stake in this matter, and the original evidence was split up again further losing the integrity of the original evidence find.
I said back in 2008/09 that 'Nobody has commented or made any forensic effort to date to interpret these original photos ...' and that remains the case to this day. These tattered broken abraded decayed groups of bills fall into a forensic category and tell a story. These bills are conveying part of their history right in front of our eyes. That story goes way beyond some mere shifting (or torquing) of a few bills noted by Tom Kaye. The general morphology of each stack of bills tells a story singly and as a group. The general gross features raise lots of questions! It may even be difficult to believe that all of these groups of bills were once stacked neatly together, one on top of the other (owing to the features seen in the Corbis photo), as the Ingrams said something like: 'we pulled these "bundles" out in pieces', whatever that means, presumably all from the same place in the sand which Brian says he was pushing sand aside to make a recess to build a fire. Or whatever actually happened.
I will leave it at that for the time being.
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